Human resource management has always faced a fundamental paradox: Top managers in any company will readily agree that the people are the keys to the success, but few believe they know whether their people are well managed or if they are prepared to fortify and enhance the transformations facing...

This paper introduces human resources management, and shows why it is so important in modern organizations. It will help you understand who human resource management affects your future, and that of your organization.

This article explores theoretical explanations of managers' decisions about flexible benefit plans. We (1) examine the adoption and design of flexible benefit plans through four theoretic lenses: institutional, resource dependence, agency, and transaction costs; (2) integrate the relevant...

The purpose of this study was to expand research on personality and leadership by investigating the relationship between leader personality and firm performance. Drawing from research on the five-factor model of personality ("the Big Fife") leader emotional adjustment (low neuroticism) and...

The present study investigated the degree to which traits from the five-factor model of personality (often termed the "Big five") and cognitive ability were associated with several dimensions of extrinsic (salary, number of promotions, job level) and intrinsic (job satisfaction, life...